Matrix, few hours ago.
Blackness. The kind of deep black that should be used to paint a black holes. Matrix space. Somewhere in the Resonance.
A woman's icon sits, her legs crossed, a sword on her laps. She sits in front of the mirror.
In the reflection there is another woman, very similar, but instead of the sword she has large folded wings. Metallic flahses on the feathers.
A winged woman started quietly - Someone hacked into the hacker's node. An agent I sent there had to escape. They followed him to the RedWire, and it crashed there along with the other I had there. They could be tracing us. In fact I estimate there is 96,7% chances they are and they escaped the Triad. I should deal with them.
No! There is no time, the call has been sent out. Continue the preparations. We'll deal with them later.
CAS, Stout and 26th Street, five seconds ago.
Thanks to the sound amplification, you're able to hear a female voice speaking to her comrades - Once again we are called to defeat the corrupt, and once again we shall be victorious.
The same message has been replayed on the Alice's commlink a second later, and you notice, that people at the café and the squatters become focused and somber.
Matrix, Denver CAS node, now.
Sprite that has been sent out by the Mouse returned with a brief report. There is no BTL program running on the hidden node that is associated with a woman and there have been one running in 9 on 10 commlinks it checked. The sprite has only checked though if the software has been visible form the public account without cracking anything. After performing his one and only service it has decompiled.
Instead of half expected flood of information Omar's agent streamed information about people found and identified the data was somewhat light. It has hooked up to the public 'link database and public record of 'plex news services and began combining it with the data available in the data of their PANs. There was nothing it could find on the she-knight in such short time, one of the henchmen however is a RedHand Dave. A shadowrunner of a some reputation. The news was about him getting caught on the theft run against Ares laboratory. He got caught. To escape he cut off his own hand he managed only to escape the corp turf, but that was enough to get him under jurisdiction of the plex. He got jailed for several years, got a hand replacement, but never really got back on the scene.
Just as the woman finished her saying in the real world however hundreds of agents flood the matrix. They started to crash every security devices around the area, and on the Karakuchi System node. A winged woman above the storm acts like a general, directing the agents’ attacks.
The first victim of the matrix attack is an building entrance node. Penetrated in the first second forced to open the door in the next and crashed in the following.
As perceived by Mouse two security hackers defending the KoffeeKlach node scrambled in, but they have to yet act on the aggression. There is nothing subtle about it.
CAS, Stout and 26th Street, now.
As soon as the doors on the street open the group on the sidewalk head toward the building.
